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Sometime in 2006, I resolved to work on a book.  That expressions a very handy for authors. The future and past marched into one another, scooping in arms and whirling me into a time vortex as it did so. Over the past year I've made significant attempts. Some of these have been based on early stage necessity instincts, others on stage five sexelebrations. 

 In late June though, I cracked it. With forty pages under my belt it took a  portable pocketbook in my cool suede to access playing the instinct every author faced with creative block must take on.

Just do it.

 Since then, I've put together 130 pages and gotten an idea that I'm nearing the halfway mark. 

An autobio covering my last ten years and mostly set in County Down. Its about groups of friendship, occupation, and estrangement. Its about trauma, and the impact on secondary survivors. The cast of characters includes charity workers, role players, paramiltaries, hypernauts, guitarists, cartoonists, cats and dogs. At times quite unpleasant, also quite the chuckler, and loving. 

I think its going to be one of the most important books in the UK comics form this year, and should change the way people perceive mini-comics for a while to come.

I'd best get back to it. 

I'm also accepting advance money orders to help pay for the printing. The books likely to come in at a fiver. Email drew.luke(at)gmail.com about payment through Paypal etc